30 Interesting And Fun Random Facts

Amazing and weird random facts.

Check out this collection of 30 amazing, funny and unbelievable facts! Perhaps here you will find something that you never knew. Learn more about the amazing world around you with these one hundred interesting things that are guaranteed to tantalize your mind!

President John F. Kennedy was wearing a corset, which helped relieve some of his back pain, when he was shot. Experts say it may also have prevented him from ducking the fatal shot.

Famous actor Woody Harrelson’s father Charles Harrelson was a convicted contract killer. He was the first person to assassinate a sitting US federal judge.

At the time of his execution, the former king Louis XVI was too fat for the guillotine and it required two attempts to behead him.

People who are born blind are four times more likely to experience nightmares than sighted people or those who become blind later in life.

In Connecticut, a pickle cannot legally be considered a pickle unless it bounces when dropped from the height of 1 foot.

A study found that sleeping on your stomach is the most likely position to produce an erotic dream.

The pupils of human eyes are at their largest as an adolescent and then slowly shrink until about the age of 60.

There exists a Fontgate scandal, where the former Prime Minister of Pakistan was found guilty after the documents he submitted as proof were typed in Calibri, a font that didnt exist at the time the document was supposed to have been drafted.

Dr. Henry Heimlich used his life saving maneuver for the first time at the age of 96 to save another retirement home resident.

In the 1930’s, the US Army developed and approved as official national policy major war plans to invade Canada (code name War Plan Crimson) and Mexico (War Plan Green) plus others.

Between 1956 and 1981, Tressa Prisbey built a ‘village’ made out of recyled bottles in order to house her collection of 17,000 pencils.

In the Victorian era, people used to say ‘prunes’ instead of 'cheese’ during photographs to make themselves look more serious as they still followed the habits of painted portraiture subjects.

There are beetles named after Darth Vader (Agathidium vaderi), Kate Winslet (Agra katewinsletae), Adolf Hitler (Anophthalmus hitleri), and several other celebrities.

A banana peel has many practical uses including treating a splinter in your finger, stopping a dvd or cd from skipping, soothe insect bites, polish your shoes or silver, whiten your teeth, and more!

When J. R. R. Tolkien’s son Michael enlisted in the Army, he put on his paperwork that his father’s profession was ‘Wizard’.

Despite their diet being composed of 99% bamboo, pandas are part of the order Carnivora, because physiologically they are made to eat meat. Thus, they are essentially vegetarians.

The New Zealand badminton team was originally nicknamed ‘the Black Cocks’ as a marketing ploy but had to drop it after complaints.

In the last 12,000 years, Niagara Falls has moved 7 miles upstream from erosion. Its current rate of erosion, which has been reduced greatly, is estimated at 1 foot per year.

In 2016 Canadian Singer Justin Bieber lost his $240,000 Ferrari 458 Italia for three weeks. His assistant eventually found it valet parked at a Beverly Hills hotel.

In 2015, a PhD student made a yogurt using the bacterial culture from her vagina, which she collected with a wooden spoon. She described the taste as “sour, tangy, and almost tingly on the tongue”.

Nothing happened in British history between the 3rd and 13th of September 1752. The British Calendar Act of 1751, which adopted the Gregorian calendar, proclaimed that in the British Empire Thursday 3 September 1752 should become Thursday 14 September 1752.

A study in 2009 found that people who pirated music were ten times more likely to purchase music than those who didn’t.

During renovation works in 1982, engineers discovered the Statue Of Liberty’s head was two feet off center. They also found the right arm was improperly attached.

Maria Von Trapp, who wrote the book which inspired both the Broadway musical and the 1965 movie The Sound Of Music, had a cameo role in the movie but was not invited to the movie’s premiere as the producer said “ there were no seats left.”

Car brand Peugeot started putting their name’s correct pronunciation on their dealers’ buildings in some countries to help the local citizens.

When the Grammy-nominated band Arctic Monkeys was formed, none of its members could play a musical instrument.

The balloon lining of every Zeppelin, a German-designed rigid airship used in WWI, was made from the guts of 250,000 cows.

Pregnant women are 42% more likely to be in a car crash during their second trimester of pregnancy compared to the previous 3 years before the pregnancy. Additionally, stats show 1 in 50 pregnant women will be in a car crash at some point during their pregnancy.

In 1989, Russian psychic E. Frenkel was run over by a train while attempting to stop it with his psychic-biological power, after previously ‘successfully’ stopping a car and streetcar.

Barry Manilow’s hit ‘I Write The Songs’ which reached number 1 on the Billboard hits chart in January of 1976, wasn’t written by Barry Manilow.

A dimorphous expression is when you express something different than what you are feeling e.g. when you cry when you’re happy or laugh when you’re nervous. It’s the body trying to regulate the emotion.